[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 223 (Tuesday, November 19, 2013)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 69336-69337]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27699]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
34 CFR Part 200
[Docket ID ED-2013-OESE-0018]
Title I--Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged
AGENCY: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; notice to reopen the public
comment period.
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SUMMARY: On August 23, 2013, we published in the Federal Register (78
FR 52467) a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding modified academic
achievement standards and alternate assessments based on those modified
academic achievement standards. This notice established an October 7,
2013, deadline for the submission of written comments. We are reopening
the public comment period for seven days.
DATES: For the proposed rule published on August 23, 2013 (78 FR
52467), written submissions must be received by the Department on or
before November 26, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via U.S. mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not
accept comments submitted by fax or by email or those submitted after
the comment period. To ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies,
please submit your comments only once. In addition, please include the
Docket ID at the top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to
submit your comments electronically. Information on using
Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents,
submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site
under ``Are you new to the site?''
U.S. Mail, Commercial Delivery, or Hand Delivery: If you
mail or deliver your comments about the proposed amendments, address
them to Monique Chism, Director, Student Achievement and School
Accountability Programs, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education,
Attention: AA-MAAS NPRM, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW., Room 3W224, Washington, DC 20202-6132.
Privacy Note: The Department's policy is to make all comments
received from members of the public available for public viewing in
their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters should be careful to include
in their comments only information that they wish to make publicly
available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carlos Martinez, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Room 3W104, Washington, DC 20202-
6132. Telephone: 202-260-1440.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-
800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: On August 23, 2013, we published a notice of proposed
rulemaking in the Federal Register (78 FR 52467), proposing to amend
the regulations governing Title I, Part A of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA) (the ``Title I
regulations''), to no longer authorize a State, in satisfying ESEA
accountability requirements, to define modified academic achievement
standards and develop alternate assessments based on those modified
academic achievement standards. These proposed amendments would permit,
as a transitional measure and for a limited period of time, States that
administered alternate assessments based on modified academic
achievement standards in the 2012-13 school year to continue to
administer alternate assessments based on modified academic achievement
standards and include the results in adequate yearly progress (AYP)
calculations, subject to limitations on the number of proficient scores
that may be counted for AYP purposes. The notice of proposed rulemaking
established an October 7, 2013, deadline for the submission of written
comments. Though the Federal eRulemaking Portal was in operation during
the recent government shutdown, which included the final seven days of
the original public comment period, we recognize that interested
parties reasonably may have believed that the government shutdown
resulted in a shutdown of the public comment period. To ensure that all
interested parties are provided the opportunity to submit comments, we
are reopening the public comment period for seven days.
Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this
document in an accessible format (e.g., braille, large print,
audiotape, or compact disc) on request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free
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Dated: November 14, 2013.
Deborah S. Delisle,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education.
[FR Doc. 2013-27699 Filed 11-18-13; 8:45 am]
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